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  • New to WDFN: see current water conditions throughout the state using the new State Pages. Visit the Louisiana page for an example. Filter by continuous data type and age of data, view latest values, and link to graphing options to explore the data further. You can update the state name in the URL to visit your State Page or read our announcement on the Water Data for the Nation blog to find links to all the state and territory pages.
Important Legacy real-time page

USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1960-08-11 1966-05-24
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1957-09-28 1966-05-24
Inorganics, Minor, Non-metals Water-quality 1960-08-11 1966-05-24
Inorganics, Minor, metals Water-quality 1960-08-11 1966-05-24
Nutrient Water-quality 1960-08-11 1966-05-24
Physical Daily Values, Unit Values, Water-quality 1957-09-28 2024-12-03
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2024-01-01
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 05284000 is associated with a Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Current conditions of Gage height and Stream water level elevation above NAVD 1988 are available. Water data back to 1957 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
05284000 n/a
Site name
MILLE LACS LAKE AT COVE BAY NEAR ONAMIA, MN n/a
Site type
Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
LK
DMS latitude 460938.64 n/a
DMS longitude 0934521.87 n/a
Decimal latitude 46.16069266 n/a
Decimal longitude -93.7563251 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Unknown or unspecified. U
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Minnesota 27
State
Minnesota 27
County
Mille Lacs County 095
Country US n/a
Land net location description NENE S21 T42N R26W n/a
Name of location map n/a
Scale of location map n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 1240.70 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Level or other surveyed method. L
Altitude accuracy .01 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07010207
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer n/a
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number MN-00100 n/a